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Plateau area steams as temperatures climb over 90
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By Dennis Box
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City Offices... City of Enumclaw offices will be closed Thursday in recognition Fourth of July holiday, but scheduled garbage and yardwaste collections will be handled as usual. Receptacles should be at curbside for pickup by 6 a.m.
Weather The forecast for today, Wednesday, calls for sunny skies with highs to 82 and overnight lows to 60. The Fourth of July forecast is for mostly sunny skies and highs to 79. Temperatures for the weekend are for the highs to 80 during the day and 59 for overnight lows.
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Buckley Log Show
Jeff Carlson competes in the single bucking event at the Buckley Log Show Saturday. Daffodil Princess Jessie Gamble, lower left, waves during the parade prior to the log show. Photos by Dennis Box and Kevin Hanson Find the log show results on page 8.
Fourth festivities around Enumclaw By Kevin Hanson Senior Writer
Downtown Enumclaw will be given over to holiday festivities Thursday afternoon as a parade rolls along Cole Street and a pair of bands will begin playing shortly after the final entry passes. But there’s more to the Fourth of July. Special events begin hours earlier, when members of the Enumclaw Rotary Club sponsor a pancake breakfast that is free
and open to the public. Breakfast will be served from 8 to 10 a.m. at the Enumclaw Senior Activity Center. Next on the holiday schedule is a 10:30 a.m. ceremony at Enumclaw City Hall, where city resident Edward Saylor will be inducted into the Enumclaw Walk of Fame. Saylor will receive a ceremonial key to the city from Mayor Liz Reynolds and a plaque will be unveiled that will be added to five others at the corner of Griffin Avenue and First Avenue. Saylor is one of just four remaining members of the famed Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, Japan. Originally 80 strong, the Doolittle mission involved an air strike on Japan in the aftermath of the attack on
The Plateau sweltered over the weekend from a heat wave that sent daytime highs into the 90s. Temperatures began rising Friday and by Sunday the high reached 93 degrees recorded by the National Weather Service at Sea-Tac airport. The record for that day was 96 set in 1995. The coldest record for the day was 43 set in 1949. The average temperature on that date is 73. The weather service began sending out excessive heat warnings for Sunday and Monday by Saturday with temperatures expected to climb well above 90 with rising humidity Monday. The hot weather is expected to drop to the very high 70s by the Fourth of July. Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of
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Historic tour of Enumclaw By Kevin Hanson
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aining a keener insight into Enumclaw’s colorful past is as easy as downloading an app to a smartphone. While that notion might leave some in a fog, the techsavvy segment of the population now have a handy tool at their fingertips. As part of the city’s 100th birthday celebration, the Enumclaw Centennial Committee has linked with a Bellevue-based company that delivers history – and more – to the small, hand-held screen. The firm
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